When a colossal starship jumps off course, the technology that allows it to travel the cosmos is at stake. In the wrong hands, this technology to instantaneously travel between planets could upset humanity's tenuous political balance. Factions will vie to recover this technology, but the device they seek has its own secrets, ones that will forever change humanity's understanding of the universe.

He was a medic in an army at war. If he played his cards right he might find a way into a comfy job on the Admiral's staff. If he failed, he was sure to end up on the front lines in the battle with the alien Kreoch. All that stood between these two fates was a mystery concerning the theft the Admiral's stasis chamber door. Jack Mackenzie returns to the universe of Debt's Pledge.

A new weapon - one that freezes its targets in space-time - has a mysterious side effect on Captain John Benjamin of the Raptor's Shadow. Can a cure be found before his world seems to come to a complete stop?

Sam Sinclair, Freelance Law Enforcer with the Inter-Galactic Law Enforcement Agency heads home to Sigma Prime to help solve a fellow law enforcer's murder. The case proves to be anything but straightforward, as the killer quickly shows himself to be the cleverest and most dangerous Sam has ever encountered. Dirty little secrets may be harmless fun to some, but this one kills.

Let's face it, Mike is a loser. Despite being born with the proverbial silver spoon, he's a failure at just about everything. After being hit in the head with a baseball, Mike wakes up unable to see, prompting his grandfather, Steve to take him across the stars in search of cure.

Drake Derringer thinks he knows how to handle his preschooler twin girls until he has to figure out how to tell the family that he's been relocated... to Mars. But they ain't even gettin' into Low Earth Orbit if his beloved girls can't bring their beloved pink plastic ponies along. * A silly tale of science fiction... with toddlers. By professionally published writer Alistair Ainscott.

In Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Silence Leigh discovered that she was not only unusual, as a female pilot, but that impossible thing, a female magus. Her unique abilities make her the only person capable of reaching Earth, humanity's original home, now sealed behind a mysterious barrier — but first she must learn to use her new-found talents.

A nearly successful attempt on Blade Devon's life makes him question his priorities, his career, and his allegiances.
Bo Barron's quest to find her father and clear her name uncovers betrayal by those closest to her, making her wonder whether Blade loves her, or is she only an asset to be used?
Given the choice between love and duty, which does one sacrifice for the other?

Zeke crash lands on a desert planet. Angela finds him unconscious, and takes him below ground for treatment. Angela’s people are hiding from humanity’s enemies, but now it’s a race to see who’ll get there first - Zeke’s reinforcements, or the aliens. Note: This novella was previously published under the title “Ezekiel” and has been substantially revised for this new edition.

Bruised and battered after a gruelling battle against the invaders of human space, the survivors continue their search for a way to defeat the aliens.
Their single hope lies in the information contained within a Humal artefact. Information that promises them a long voyage to a distant star system. A system that, as far as they can tell, was once part of the mighty Humal Empire...

Six inter-galactic short stories from author, Frances Pauli.
From The Fobidden Zone to the Alien-Human relations department, these short, alien-infested romps explore encounters with a diversity of imagined species, scenarios, and space disasters.
Join Dylan Lowwater, lackluster employee at Space Station H22-J231, Jo Lorey, wayward musician desperate to communicate with a threatened race, and L

The discovery of an ancient artefact sends Keris of the kelanni and the human McCann spinning back into the distant past to uncover a threat more terrible than either of them could conceive.
'Seeds Across the Sky' is the fourth book in the best selling Lodestone Series.

More than fifteen hundred years have passed since the last survivors of Humankind were marooned by a dying Ship on the sanctuary world known as Midian.
But after more than a millennium of peace, the people of Midian are about to face an ancient foe whose only goal is their annihilation.

Featuring Flight of the Mockingbird, Branching Out and Sol Side Up
Training for the ISS Mockingbird, Colonel Sumitra Ramachandra and Major Lamarr Fitch find that they’re being deployed before certification. The ISS Astraeus, an International Space Organization vessel fails to transmit its latest exploration report in the Gliese 667 System twenty-two light-years away...

Corporal Lucas Wright was in trouble. Held pending an investigation following his last mission, he is forced to relate the events of that mission over and over again.
But this last time was different, for his "interviewers" were not the regular military investigators he was used to.
As the interview, and his story, unfold, he begins to suspect that there is a lot more going on than he knows...